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Teaching Responsibility: No you are not

One of the biggest illusions teachers have is that they are "teaching responsibility." They actually believe it. There's no evidence for it.

Now my brilliant co-author Julie Coates has uncovered new evidence teachers are not teaching responsibility.

Teachers, you see, punish students for late work. As males submit their work in late in far greater propotion to female students, males get lower grades in every school district and college in the country. Teachers rationalize this by saying that students have to show up on time for work.

Only there is no relationship between on-time performance in school and work. Males, while turning in their homework late, show up for work on time.

And now, under the leadership of Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of the Department of Labor, there is a new DOL study showing that women are more likely than men to be absent from work even when family and childcare reasons are taken out of the mix.